MULLER / SCHUBERT
Winterreise (Version for narrator, cello, and piano) Xaver Hutter, narrator, Martin Rummel, cello, Norman Shetler, piano [ Paladino Music / CD - released 21/Apr/2012 ] "Paladino's 2012 release "Müller/Schubert Winterreise" consists of a reading of the poetry of Wilhelm Müller. Each poem is followed by the song in a straightforward transcription for piano and cello. It's not a re-imagining like Hans Zender's... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor K. 491 / Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major K. 415 (with bonus DVD) Martin Helmchen (piano) / Netherlands Chamber Orchestra / Gordan Nikolic [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2007 ] The pellucid sound quality of the spacious PentaTone recording adds enormously to one's enjoyment of these performances and this outstanding disc can be warmly recommended without reservation." Graham Williams , SA-CD.net |
STRAVINSKY
Ballet music: Le Sacre / Petrushka / The Firebird / Pulcinella / Suites no. 1 and no. 2 Yvonne Kenny / Robert Tear / Philadelphia Orchestra under Riccardo Muti / Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields under Sir Neville Marriner [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] "Marriner's Pulcinella is a joy from first bar to last; how the players enjoy the quirkiness of Stravinsky's scoring" (Gramophone on Pulcinella) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Variations on a Rocco Theme / Pezzo Capriccio (with Shostakovich-Cello Concerto No 1) Zuill Bailey (Cello) / San Francisco Ballet Orchestra / Martin West [ Telarc Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Zuill Bailey, the dynamic and exhilarating American cellist, makes his Telarc debut with the release of Russian Masterpieces for Cello. The recording includes Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme and the Nocturne in D Minor Op. 19 No. 4, and... |